The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Egypt

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
226 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
446 Joseph and His Brothers Thomas Mann 1933 German German
624 The Histories of Herodotus Herodotus -450 Greek Ancient greek
644 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje 1992 Canadian English
815 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 1872 French French
857 Midaq Alley Naguib Mahfouz 1947 Egyptian Arabic
883 Thaïs Anatole France 1890 French French
1015 Justine Lawrence Durrell 1957 British English
1016 Poems Of C. P. Cavafy C. P. Cavafy 1935 Greek Greek
1066 Antony And Cleopatra William Shakespeare 1606 British English
1115 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
1218 The Egyptian Mika Waltari 1945 Finnish Finnish
1233 Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz 1959 Egyptian Arabic
1234 Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
1624 The Mediterranean And The Mediterranean World In The Age Of Philip Ii Fernand Braudel 1949 French French
1845 Drifting Cities Stratis Tsirkas 1960 Greek Greek
1864 The Jewish War Flavius Josephus 75 Jewish Greek
1948 The Jewel Of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1903 British English
2032 Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt 1845 German German
2032 The History Of Rome Theodor Mommsen 1854 German German
2051 Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 1956 Egyptian Arabic
2495 Miramar Naguib Mahfouz 1967 Egyptian Arabic
2560 Pharaoh Bolesław Prus 1895 Polish Polish
2817 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 1979 American English
3185 Eothen Alexander William Kinglake 1844 British English
3196 The Gospel Of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer 100 Unknown English
3249 Death On The Nile Agatha Christie 1937 British English
3378 Zadig Voltaire 1747 French French
3637 The Tomb Of Tutankhamun Howard Carter 1954 British English
3637 Gods, Graves, And Scholars C. W. Ceram 1949 German German
3637 The Bible As History Werner Keller 1955 German German
3637 History Of The Art Of Antiquity Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1762 German German
3915 Zayni Barakat Jamal al- Ghitani 1974 Egyptian Arabic
3948 Antériorité Des Civilisations Nègres Cheikh Anta Diop 1954 Senegalese French
3954 Η Χαμένη Άνοιξη Stratis Tsirkas 1946 Greek Greek
4179 Cheops J.H. Leopold 1936 Dutch Dutch
4205 The Arabian Nightmare Robert Irwin 1983 British English
4234 Iskander Louis Couperus 1920 Dutch Dutch
4393 The Winds Of War Herman Wouk 1971 American English
4404 Fortunes Of War Olivia Manning 1960 British English
4476 Al Mawt `Ala Al Asfalt `Abd al-Rahman Abnudi 1960 Egyptian Arabic
4495 The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 1887 French French
4836 One Of Cleopatra's Nights Théophile Gautier 1838 French French
4900 The Teachings Of Ptahhotep Ptahhotep -2400 Unknown Ancient egyptian
4900 The River War Winston Churchill 1899 British English
4957 The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1911 British English
4988 The Campaigns Of Alexander Arrian 1976 Greek Greek
5046 My First Two Thousand Years George Vierick 1928 American English
5046 Tongues Of Conscience Robert Hichens 1893 British English
5138 The Eloquent Peasant Unknown -1850 Egyptian Ancient egyptian
5371 Death Comes As The End Agatha Christie 1944 British English
5471 Meetings With Remarkable Men George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 1963 Unknown Russian
5531 Africa Jiří Hanzelka, Miroslav Zikmund 1952 Czech Czech
5704 The Persian Boy Mary Renault 1972 British English
5819 Helen Euripides -412 Greek Ancient greek
5917 Egyptian Book Of The Dead Unknown -1550 Egyptian Egyptian (hieroglyphic)
5972 The Life Of Ismail Ferik Pasha Rea Galanaki 1989 Greek Greek
5983 The Open Door Latifa Zayyat 1960 Egyptian Arabic
6208 The Moon In The Cloud Rosemary Harris 1968 British English
6343 Kriminalgeschichte Des Christentums Karlheinz Deschner 1986 German German
6366 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 British English
6382 An Essay On Universal History, The Manners, And Spirit Of Nations Voltaire 1756 French French
6444 Mystical Dimensions Of Islam Annemarie Schimmel 1975 Unknown English
6493 Moses, Man Of The Mountain Zora Neale Hurston 1939 American English
6621 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
7216 Alexandrian Songs Mikhail Kuzmin 1906 Russian Russian
7216 An Egyptian Childhood Taha Husayn 1929 Egyptian Arabic
7685 A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 2021 American English
7967 Balthazar Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
7967 Mountolive Lawrence Durrell 1958 British English
8023 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8076 The Map Of Love Ahdaf Soueif 1999 Egyptian English
8076 The White Nile Alan Moorehead 1960 British English
8076 Clea Lawrence Durrell 1960 British English
8093 When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone 1976 American English
8157 Crocodile On The Sandbank Elizabeth Peters 1975 American English
8164 To Catch A Bride Anne Gracie 2009 Australian English
8389 Poems Of Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès 1959 French French
8596 The Adventures Of Tintin Hergé 1929 Belgian French
8644 Water Marq de Villiers 2000 Canadian English
8717 Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux 2002 American English
8748 The Key To Rebecca Ken Follett 1980 British English
8753 The Creation Of Patriarchy Gerda Lerner 1986 American English
8944 Letters From Egypt Florence Nightingale 1987 British English
9075 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9095 River God Wilbur Smith 1993 South African English
9263 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9280 The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 1960 British English
9353 That Smell Sonallah Ibrahim 1966 Egyptian Arabic
9711 Society And The Holy In Late Antiquity Peter Brown 1982 British English
9837 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9860 The Red Tent Anita Diamant 1997 American English
10018 The Zafarani Files Jamal al- Ghitani 1976 Egyptian Arabic
10092 The Ends Of The World Peter Brannen 2017 American English
10123 Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal 2013 Egyptian English
10292 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10443 Two Women In One Nawal El Saadawi 1975 Egyptian Arabic
10454 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10871 Down The Nile Rosemary Mahoney 2007 American English
10890 Architecture For The Poor Hassan Fathy 1973 Egyptian English
11168 The Creators Daniel J. Boorstin 1992 American English
11257 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11337 Memoirs From The Women’s Prison Nawal El Saadawi 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11346 A Bridge Through Time Laila Abou-Saif 1984 Egyptian Unknown
11346 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11366 Complete Works Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Spanish
11412 The Egyptian, Syrian, And Iraqi Revolutions Hanna Batatu 1984 American Unknown
11483 The Darkening Age Catherine Nixey 2017 British English
11605 One Hundred Poems By Cavafy Cavafy Greek Greek
11613 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11621 A Border Passage Leila Ahmed 1999 Unknown English
11637 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11663 Thirteen Days In September Lawrence Wright 2014 American English
11663 Years Of Upheaval Henry A. Kissinger 1982 American English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
11853 Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith 2003 British English
12104 Sword Of Honour Evelyn Waugh 1965 British English
12123 The Palestine Laboratory Antony Loewenstein 2023 Australian English